Choose one from the following (Project 2a or 2b) and upload your file and enter it into the corresponding table by 12/08 Sunday midnight (11:59pm --- wiki will automatically time stamp your entry)
Project 2a: Try to write a "Grad school application statement"
Suppose you are applying for graduate school (related to physics), write a 1-page "statement of interest" explaining your interests in a chose field of modern physics or application (you may include why you are interested in the subject, what you hope to study/research, any of your previous/current work that motivated/prepared you, with up-to 1 figure and a few references)
[Note: I'll be happy to give you "free feedback" on your statement, even after the course]
Project 2b: New developments in physics:
Pick a notable achievement in physics that particular interests you, and make a 1-slide summary of that work.
Some suggested places to look for important work in physics maybe:
Go to Web of Science (or another similar publication/citation database) and enter a topic and find out which is the most cited (original work, not review) papers published on that topic
Note added: for both option 2a and 2b, you can also choose the topic from the list the class voted in HWK 1 (see vote results under course website/solutions, or http://www.physics.purdue.edu/webapps/index.php/course_document/index/phys344/1622/5/13022)
Project 2a: Try to write a "Grad school application statement"
Suppose you are applying for graduate school (related to physics), write a 1-page "statement of interest" explaining your interests in a chose field of modern physics or application (you may include why you are interested in the subject, what you hope to study/research, any of your previous/current work that motivated/prepared you, with up-to 1 figure and a few references)
[Note: I'll be happy to give you "free feedback" on your statement, even after the course]
Spintronics
Project 2b: New developments in physics:
Pick a notable achievement in physics that particular interests you, and make a 1-slide summary of that work.
Some suggested places to look for important work in physics maybe:
- http://physics.aps.org/
- http://www.nature.com/physics/index.html
- physics achievements that made into Science magazine's annual list of "breakthrough of the year" (see eg. 2012 list in
http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/btoy2012/ and also previous years's list)Clive Townsend - Quantum Computing -